I'm done with the exception of one sentence. It's my favorite individual sentence in the entire chapter and I just realized that it makes no sense at all and must be changed or deleted. I can't figure out how to change it. It's important for something else; so I can't delete it without fixing it into other parts. Ugh. I've read about this; having that one piece you love so much and having to possess the discipline to rip it out, because the work isn't about you as a writer. This lesson is tough! One sentence to go and I'll send it in. May take until 6/30, but one sentence!

“Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.” ~Dillard.

Next year will be non-fiction, but even so, the Page Turner contest probably won't work terribly well with individual devotions/stories. That's because the first chapter has to be something that really grabs the reader and makes them want to keep reading. So if each chapter was a stand-alone story or devotion, that may be a bit harder to judge.

Don't be discouraged. I'm in the same boat. I've had the idea for a while, but not sure if I should "GO FOR IT." Yesterday, I had a slow day at my gift store, so I dove right in and my oldest daughter read it and thought I had a really good start.

Guess I just might get it done. We've still got almost two weeks.

I THINK I CAN!

I THINK YOU CAN!

I THINK I CAN!

I THINK YOU CAN!

Marty

"To live without risk is to risk not living."--Brennan Manning

"The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work."
--Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give."
--William A. Ward